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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 758 Where Bernie Went Wrong

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Senator Bernie Sanders attracted plenty of attention this election cycle, but while his complaints weren’t always without merit, his proposed solutions would only have added fuel to the fire. Hunter Lewis, author of the new book Where Bernie Went Wrong, joins me to take a closer look at Bernie and his ideas.

Show notes for Ep. 758

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 758.

0:03.5

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:08.3

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.8

Folks, I've just released another free e-book, this one called Education Without the State.

0:26.3

Grab your copy at no-stateeducation.com or by texting the word educate to 33444. Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. Hunter Lewis is back on the show. We have not

0:34.4

spoken to Hunter Lewis since the very earliest episodes of the show

0:39.3

several years ago. And at that time, he had recently published his book, Where Cains Went Wrong.

0:47.2

Well, he's got a brand new book now called Where Bernie Went Wrong and Why His Remedies

0:52.8

Will Just Make Crony Capitalism W worse. I'm linking to that book,

0:57.2

of course, at tomwoods.com slash 758. Hunter Lewis is a graduate of Harvard University. He is the co-founder

1:06.0

of Cambridge Associates, a global investment firm, and he's the author of numerous books, but I'm glad today to have a chance to talk to him about his latest book, Where Bernie Went Wrong. Hunter Lewis, welcome to the show.

1:19.2

It's nice to be with you. Actually, I should say, welcome back to the show, but it's been so long. It's been probably close to three years. We were talking about a couple other books of yours that came out in rapid succession. And now you've got this book. I'm just telling people about Bernie Sanders. Do you feel like maybe the Bernie Sanders ship has sailed and therefore there's no point in having a book on Bernie Sanders. What's the value in

1:44.9

looking at these ideas? Yes, that certainly occurred to me as a consideration, but the reason

1:51.2

I wanted to do it was sort of twofold. First of all, Hillary started out by really not adopting

1:58.9

the Bernie program, but as time went on, she began to adopt

2:02.9

more and more of it. So as you may have noticed, she's by now she's adopted virtually all of it.

2:09.2

There is one big exception that she has not adopted, which we can discuss later maybe,

2:14.5

which relates to genetically modified food. But otherwise, she's

2:18.3

pretty much taken the whole thing over. It's a little bit Bernie light in the sense that

2:23.9

he wants a minimum wage to be $15. She wants it to be $12 and so on. But she's pretty much

2:30.2

taking it over. The Democratic Party has pretty much taken it over. So what Bernie did

2:35.7

has actually had a lot of consequences beyond his primary campaign. And the other reason I wanted

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